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...four, when pressed, declare that they are going to sell vacuum cleaners in Kenya ("Hut to hut?" somebody asks), but actually they are off to swing a big uranium swindle. Stranded at a small Italian port while their steamer makes repairs, the six fall in with a discreetly bogus British peer Edward Underdown) and his wife (Jennifer Jones), a virtuoso liar who spends nost of the picture in a state of cadenza...
...Bright Sands is studded with set pieces that will tickle all but misanthropes: Captain Cobb's annual auction of stolen articles, his drunken acceptance of the prize for the season's largest striped bass (illegitimately come by), his bogus historical lecture inspired by the finding of a complete skeleton. But Author Taylor's affection for Cape Cod and its people sometimes transcends comic writing, and his description of an offshore rescue by the local Coast Guard men during a hurricane is a model of exact reporting. The Bright Sands takes few fictional liberties with its natural setting...
...Bogus Legalism. Molotov scored one diplomatic finesse during the week. Again and again, he raised a bogus legalism: under the European Army treaty, he insisted, a unified Germany would be forced to join the Western alliance and be subject to it for 50 years. Thus goaded, the Western Foreign Ministers were lured into emphasizing and repeating that Germany, once united, would be free to accept or reject Western commitments already made by West Germany. "A reunited Germany . . . cannot be bound by the obligations of its predecessors," Eden emphasized. Inevitably, EDC opponents in France could make much of that admission...
With this policy Britain has denied entrance to delegates of the bogus "World Peace Movement," but allowed Communists to enter at the specific invitation of certain labor unions and to attend certain technical conferences...
...instance, the British endured a spate of low-grade idiots in the ranks during the Revolution and the War of 1812. We have it on cinema graphic authority that American spays had only to assume a bogus West End accent to gain admission to the most secret of English planning sessions...